AARON Hughes has called on Villa not to throw away all the good work at Blues by giving the Villa Park crowd something to shout about against Paul Jewell's rampant Wigan.

Having inspired Northern Ireland and Villa to massive wins in the past month, Hughes has become something of a talisman.

And he is only thinking about the prospect of Villa picking up successive wins for the first time in seven months.

Villa are searching for only their second victory on home turf since March, and Hughes said: "It's important that we try to use that win to kick-on because we've got to a point in the season where we should be getting more points.

"We're at home tomorrow and we have to win. But it's not going to be easy. Wigan are flying, they're showing a lot of people that they can live in the Premiership and they've got a lot of quality in their side that can hurt you.

"It's going to be tough but with the confidence we got out of last weekend, we're looking to get a result."

Wigan have won five of their last six games and Hughes said: "They've proved a lot of people wrong and I'm sure they'll continue to do well."

Hughes knows Villa's performance at Blues has lifted the whole club.

"It was never going to be a performance of nice football," he said. "You get it down and play while you can but a lot of it was scrappy, fighting for balls.

"Kevin Phillips took his chance really well and there was a big relief to get the win."

Jason Roberts and Henri Camara are well known to Albion and Wolves fans and Hughes added: "They have caused problems for defences wherever they've played and are both now doing very well at Wigan.

"They've more than shown they are capable of causing people trouble and we have to be on the look-out for them. But as much as they can do that, we've got to be looking to impose our own game on the pitch.

"We've played good football at times this season, and if we can reproduce that we can get a result." Hughes has also called on Villa to end their Villa Park woes.

Villa have won just one, drawn five and lost two of eight home games since beating Everton and Middlesbrough on successive games in February and March. He said: "We've been playing decent football at times but maybe not been getting what we deserve.

"We've conceded some bad goals, we know that ourselves and we know we have to put that right."

Hughes knows there is an onus on Villa to force the pace tomorrow. He said: "You are expected to win the majority of games you play at home, but it doesn't always work out that way.

"We can improve our home form - and if we do we'll get right back up the league pretty quickly.